Steam-kettle.



E. KEMP.

STEAM KETTLE.

APPLICATION FILED 00w. 16, 1908.

Patented Mar. 2. 1 909.

1 mz pw y ELIZA KEMP, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

STEAM-KETTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 16, 1908.

Patented March 2, 1909.

Serial No. 457,978.

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, ELIZA KEMP, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Steam-Kettles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an apparatus to be used in the sick-room or hospital in the treatment of croup and other diseases of the throat, lungs and nose, and known generally by the designation of steam kettles, and in connection with which apparatus the patient is treated under a canopy forming a tent-like device which confines the aqueous vapors. Heretofore these devices have been decidedly crude, clumsy and ineficient, besides lacking in adequate support, and as usually placed being in the way of the. attendant nurse or others around the sick, so that accidents of fire and burning sometimes resulted even with care, all of which it is the object of my invention to overcome.

In carrying out my invention, I provide a vessel for boiling water, a suitable support for the same also adapted to hold a lamp for heating the water in the vessel. To the vessel I attach rod uprights which are adapted to be secured to the head-frame of a bedstead or cot, with the vessel and its support back of the head of the bed out of the way. These rod uprights are bent and continued over the head of the bed and extend forward as a frame to support a blanket orother fabric covering emp oyed to form a canopy or tent. The water vessel may have a top or cover and a funnel filling device.

Two pipes for steam, or a single pipe, open into and extend upward away from the hot water vessel and where I employ a single pipe it is made with branches. The steam pipes bend over the top of the bed or cot and extend forward under the frame where they terminate in connecting cross pipes perforated in the under surfaces for the escape of the steam, The frame is adapted to support a blanket or other fabric thrown over it to form a canopy or tent device.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a side elevation showing a bed or cot and the apparatus of my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan of the parts shown in Fig. 1 except the bed. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the apparatus and with the part at the back of the bed. Fig. 4 is an inverted plan in larger size at the end of the frame and than the parts shown in Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 is a cross section through one of the pipes and a post of the back of the bed, or through two of the pipes illustrating a form, of adjustable clamping device.

The bedstead or cot a may be of any well known construction; a being the head frame of the same.

I prefer to employ the apparatus of my improvement in connection with an iron bedstead as the device is more readily removably connected thereto and iron bedsteads are usually employed in hospitals.

1) represents a vessel for water and c a support in the form of a stool upon which the water vessel rests, and d is a lamp in the lower part of said support and beneath the water vessel for heating the vessel by the spirit flame of the lamp. The water vessel may be provided with a removable cover 2 and a stopper 3 for filling the same with water, and I prefer to employ one or more clamps 4 011 one side of the vessel, which clamps receive and securely connect to the rod up-rights e. These are of a length extending vertically to reach above the head of the bed and they are bent over the head of the bed and extend forward as a horizontal por tion or loop e I provide one or more suitable clamping devices 6 such as shown in Fig. 5, for connecting with the rod rip-rights at one end and with an up-right bar of the head of the bed at the other end, so that the bed as an anchor or foundation holds up and supports the rod up-rights e and horizontal portion 6 which are connected thereto.

I prefer to employ a netting 5 of wire extending across between the members of the horizontal loop 6 and secured thereto so as to fill up the space between the members which form the loop and adapt the same to support a blanket or other fabric that may be thrown over this horizontal loop ortion, enabling a tent or canopy to be ma e of the blanket or fabric around the patient and at the head of the bed.

I have illustrated the steam pipes f connected to the water vessel Z) and rising therefrom. These pipes are advantageously connected to and supported from the rod uprights 6 also by suitable clamping devices 8 which may be similar in construction and form to the clamps 6 In the length of the steam pipes f there are steam be shown in Fi 2 and in lar er size 1 re ulation cocks 9 for turnin on or closin b 7 O D off the supply of steam from the water vessel. These steam pi es rise and are bent over and rovided with horizontal portions f coming eneath the horizontal art or loop 2 of the uprights and extending a so over the top of the head of the bed, and I prefer to make the horizontal parts f with cross pipes 6 7, one pipe coming at the end of the parts f and one near the ends and these pipes are erforated on the under side, lpreferab y with floles of different diameters, t at is, as shown in Fig. 4, the pipe 6 with small holes and the pipe 7 with large holes, and I prefer to place plugs 10, the one in one end of the pipe 6 and the other forward of one cou ling of the pipe 6 to the part f 1 as shown in 4, so that the steam from one up-right f will pass forward through one of the parts f and out through the holes in the pipe 6, while the steam from the other up-right pipe f will pass forward in the pipe f andinto the pipe7 and out through its larger perforations and in this way a su ply from either pipe or from both pipes can e used, according to the requirements of the case.

While I have herein shown devices ada ted for carrying out my invention, I do not imit myself to all the details shown, nor to the employment of precisely the devices illus trated, as the same may be modified or changed without departing from the spirit of my invention.

I claim as my invention:

1. The combination with a suitable vessel for holdin water, a support therefor and means for heating the water, of su port rods having vertical members of pre etermined height and horizontal members extending out therefrom and forming a frame, and pipes entering and extending vertically from the Water holding vessel and having horizontal ortions extending therefrom and coming eneath the supporting frame.

2. The combination with a suitable vessel for holding water, a support therefor and means for heating the water, of en port rods having vertical members of pre etermined height and horizontal members extending out therefrom and forming a frame, and pipes entering and extending vertically from the water holding vessel and having horizontal portions extending therefrom and coming beneath the supporting frame, and clamp devices for connectin the said rods adjustably to the head of a ed.

3. The combination with a suitable vessel for holding water, a support therefor and means for heating the water, of su port rods having vertical members of pre etermined height and horizontal members extending out therefrom and forming a frame, and pipes entering and extending vertically from the water holding vessel and having horizontal portions extending therefrom and coming eneath the supporting frame, clamp devices for connecting the said rods adjustably to the head of a bed and other clamping and supporting devices connecting the support rods and the pipes for steam.

4. The combination with a suitable vessel for holding water, a support therefor, a spirit lamp carried by the support and adapted to heat the vessel and vaporize the water therein, of clamp devices fastened on the side of the vessel, vertically dis osed rods secured in said clamp devices'an extending upward to a predetermined height with parts bent over at right angles to the ver tical parts forming a frame, means for clamping said rods to the head of a bed, the devices located back of the said head and in proximity thereto, the said horizontal frame portion forming a support for the blanket or other covering forming a canopy or tent over the bed, and pipes for steam'extending out from the water vessel and ada ted to deliver steam beneath the horizonta frame portion.

5. The combination with a suitable vessel for holding water, a support therefor, a spirit lamp carried by the support and adapted to heat the vessel and vaporize the water therein, of clam devices fastened on the side of the vesse, vertically disposed rods secured in said clam devices and extending upward to a pre etermined height, with parts bent over at right angles to the vertical parts forming a frame, and a netting of wire within and extending across the parts of the frame formed by the horizontally disposed rods.

6. The combination with a suitable vessel for holding water, a support therefor, a spirit lamp carried by the support and adapted to heat the vessel and vaporize the water therein, of clamp devices fastened on the side of the vessel, vertically disposed rods secured in said clam devices and extending upward to a pre etermined height, with parts bent over at right angles to the vertical parts forming a frame, means for clamping said rods to the head of a bed, the devices located back of the said head and in proximity thereto, the said horizontal frame portion forming a support for the blanket or other covering forming a canopy or tent for the bed, and pipes for steam entering and extending vertically from the said water hold ing vessel and having parts bent at right angles thereto and extending beneath the frame of rods, said steam pipes having connecting perforated members for the delivery of steam in a downward direction, and means for regulating the supply of steam to the horizontally disposed portions ofsaid pipes.

7. The combination with a suitable vessel for holding water, a support therefor, a

e support and the frame of rods, said steam pipes having connecting perforated members for the delivery of steam in a downward direction and 15 means for regulating the supply of steam to the horizontally disposed portions of said water therein, of clamp devices fastened on the side of the vessel, vertically disposed rods secured in said clamp devices and extending upward to a predetermined height, with parts bent over at right angles to the vertical parts forming a frame, a netting of pipes.

wire within and extending across the parts Signed by me this 9th day of October 1908. of the frame formed by the horizontally disa posed rods, and pipes for steam entering ELIZA KEMP and extending vertically from the said water Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINOKNEY,

l holding vessel and having parts bent at l E. ZACHARIASEN.

right angles thereto and extending beneath 

